Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I swim more or less every day.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Be first the master of yourself

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and Good Government of Canada

Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves.

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!